Bob
27th July 2015, 18:17
Again the Brain-Eating Amoeba Shows Up in Louisiana Tap Water
(Source (https://www.yahoo.com/health/brain-eating-amoeba-shows-up-in-louisiana-tap-125170465647.html))
A brain-eating amoeba that killed two people in two weeks ago has turned up in the water supply of a Louisiana county near New Orleans for the second time in two years.
The water supply of St. Bernard Parish (Louisiana counties are called parishes), which is located five miles outside of downtown New Orleans, is undergoing a 60-day chlorine “burn” to eradicate Naegleria fowleri, the Louisiana Department of Heath and Hospitals announced.
This amoeba has been the predominant factor behind the deaths of children across the country this year and last. It likes to inhabit warm waters, puddles and ditches.
It easily passes through the olfactory nerve and into the brain (from the nose).
Residents should avoid getting water in their noses because it can infect people via that route. It travels up the nose and into the brain, where it typically causes an infection of the lining around the brain (meningitis) and inflammation of the brain (encephalitis). Symptoms often include severe headaches, fever, and a stiff neck.
Infection with the amoeba is often deadly. A teenage boy died this month after developing an infection believed to have been caused by Naegleria fowleri that he came into contact with while swimming in a lake.
Hunter A. Boutain, 14, died from primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), a rare infection of the brain caused by the amoeba, just 48 hours after he went swimming in Minnesota’s Lake Minnewaska. He was hospitalized after his swim and was unresponsive hours later.
The temptation to go swimming in warm lakes during the summer is strong.. And catching this bug is possible.. Including catching it from the City water system (Near New Orleans)..
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(Source (https://www.yahoo.com/health/brain-eating-amoeba-shows-up-in-louisiana-tap-125170465647.html))
A brain-eating amoeba that killed two people in two weeks ago has turned up in the water supply of a Louisiana county near New Orleans for the second time in two years.
The water supply of St. Bernard Parish (Louisiana counties are called parishes), which is located five miles outside of downtown New Orleans, is undergoing a 60-day chlorine “burn” to eradicate Naegleria fowleri, the Louisiana Department of Heath and Hospitals announced.
This amoeba has been the predominant factor behind the deaths of children across the country this year and last. It likes to inhabit warm waters, puddles and ditches.
It easily passes through the olfactory nerve and into the brain (from the nose).
Residents should avoid getting water in their noses because it can infect people via that route. It travels up the nose and into the brain, where it typically causes an infection of the lining around the brain (meningitis) and inflammation of the brain (encephalitis). Symptoms often include severe headaches, fever, and a stiff neck.
Infection with the amoeba is often deadly. A teenage boy died this month after developing an infection believed to have been caused by Naegleria fowleri that he came into contact with while swimming in a lake.
Hunter A. Boutain, 14, died from primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), a rare infection of the brain caused by the amoeba, just 48 hours after he went swimming in Minnesota’s Lake Minnewaska. He was hospitalized after his swim and was unresponsive hours later.
The temptation to go swimming in warm lakes during the summer is strong.. And catching this bug is possible.. Including catching it from the City water system (Near New Orleans)..
https://s.yimg.com/cd/resizer/2.0/FIT_TO_WIDTH-w540/5f9386a6ac47edf2c188f78c9f4007f4a0ca039a.jpg